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Onimusha: Way of the Sword might be a more forgiving kind of samurai epic

Capcom’s Onimusha series has been on a long hiatus. Combining Resident Evil-style rendered backgrounds with more agile characters, adding in demons, magic and a feudal Japan setting, the series span multiple sequels — and consoles — til the fourth entry in 2006. Roughly two decades (and console eras) later, Capcom has returned to the series, even getting the definitive samurai actor, Tom Cruise Mifune Toshiro, to play the hero, the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. At Gamescom, the company

Why my new favorite Samsung tablet model isn't the FE or Ultra (and it's full of surprises)

Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro is available starting at $659 for the 128GB version, with 5G models starting at $769. It's an exceptionally rugged tablet with removable dual batteries and software updates for eight years. RAM is a bit limited at 6GB, and the included S Pen doesn't support wireless Bluetooth functions. View now at Samsung Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium bro

The End of Handwriting

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trum

Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

Today, we’re introducing Tidewave Web for Rails and Phoenix: a coding agent that runs directly in the browser alongside your web application, in your own development environment, with full page and code context. Unlike traditional coding agents that require constant back-and-forth, Tidewave Web knows your UI state, understands your framework, and runs within your actual development environment. No more describing what’s on your screen, copying stacktraces, or losing context between tools. Our

The First-Ever Prescription Gummy for Hair Loss: Everything You Need to Know

Losing between 50 to 100 hairs per day is normal, but shedding beyond that can be concerning and stressful. If you've tried serums, vitamins and topical solutions but nothing has helped, you're not alone. Even Gen Z Reddit users have the same concern, wondering what might be contributing to it and how to get rid of hair loss. How about a prescription gummy for hair loss? Hers, a telehealth company that provides online health care services and products for women, announced the launch of its Biot

It's the Economy, Donald

For months, the mantra inside the White House has been a MAGA version of “Keep calm and carry on.” President Donald Trump’s inner circle and more junior aides have embraced the term “No panicans”—specifically around tariffs—to signal there is no room to panic over, and certainly no room for dissent from, the president’s economic policies. The administration’s areas of focus—deporting immigrants whose labor powers key sectors like agriculture and construction, levying tariffs, and cutting social

I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers

Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader—the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver—issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few days after the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two, Schrader asked his Facebook followers: “Will Dune 3 be made by AI? And, if it is, how will we know?” Schrader is well regarded not only as a director, but one of cinema’s top-she

Finally, Notion now works without an internet connection

For years, one of the most annoying issues with using Notion was that you couldn’t get much done offline because of its cloud-first architecture. The company has finally solved that problem, adding support for an offline mode to its apps. To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the company on Tuesday said in a post announcing the update that this is one of the most requested features from users. So users can now finally view, edit and create notes without an internet connection across Notion’s deskto

Verizon-powered prepaid brands just got a lot more travel-friendly

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon-powered prepaid providers, Simple Mobile and Total Wireless, are introducing several travel-friendly perks across their plans. The updated plans offer new international calling, texting, and roaming benefits, and in some cases, bundled streaming services. Verizon will soon power new global connectivity options for prepaid customers of Simple Mobile and Total Wireless. Starting August 28, the two no-contract prepaid providers under Verizon’s Va

The best wireless mice for 2025

There’s a reason the MX Master 3S is right up the top of our list. The ergonomic design almost feels like a hand rest that places three customizable buttons and a second scroll wheel within easy reach of your thumb. Every button is configurable via Logitech’s Options+ software, which is a treasure trove of productivity potential. Beyond standard customization options such as click-speed and scroll direction, you can assign all manner of shortcuts and create profiles for specific apps — so the b

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Hyperkin’s DualSense-inspired Xbox controller is finally launching this fall

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s good news if you’re an Xbox gamer who’s longingly stared at the sleeker design of Sony’s DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5. After revealing the final form of its Competitor gamepad at CES 2025, Hyperkin has announced it will be available some

The White House now has a TikTok account

The White House has joined TikTok, the social media app that President Trump wanted to ban during his first term. Its first post shows clips of Trump in various events with Kendrick Lamar's track playing in the background. The New York Times notes that it references a popular video edit of Creed, a boxing movie starring Michael B. Jordan, on the app. In the TikTok post, Trump could be heard saying "I am your voice," while the caption reads "America we are BACK! What's up TikTok?" Trump's admini

Rails Charts Using ECharts from Apache

Rails Charts One more gem to build nice charts for your Ruby on Rails application. With it you can build various types of charts Apache eCharts library (v. 5.4.0). This gem simplifies interface and adding few helpers to start adding charts in your app with just a few lines of code. What you can build with it: In most cases with one line of code you can have a nice chart. The idea of this gem was inspired by Chartkick gem which is great and allows you to build charts very quickly. It works be

Drunken Bishop (2023)

The OpenSSH project is a widely available tool for working with the SSH protocol in a variety of ways on a variety of operating systems. Their project description states: OpenSSH is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. It encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. In addition, OpenSSH provides a large suite of secure tunneling capabilities, several authentication methods, and sophisticated configuration options. On

Physically Based Rendering in Filament

**Physically Based Rendering in Filament** ![](images/filament_logo.png) # About This document is part of the [Filament project](https://github.com/google/filament). To report errors in this document please use the [project's issue tracker](https://github.com/google/filament/issues). ## Authors - [Romain Guy](https://github.com/romainguy), [@romainguy](https://twitter.com/romainguy) - [Mathias Agopian](https://github.com/pixelflinger), [@darthmoosious](https://twitter.com/darthmoosious) # Overvi

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 20, #331

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition leans heavy on West Coast teams, so hope you know those! Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The A

The White House just joined TikTok

While it was President Joe Biden who signed the law that would force ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok or face a ban, it’s his successor, Donald Trump, who has yet to fulfill his promise of arranging a deal to keep TikTok running, legally, in the United States. The current deadline for a deal is September 17th. Still, it hasn’t stopped Trump’s administration from creating @WhiteHouse on TikTok, which published its first post on Tuesday night: a video celebrating Trump’s accomplishments. The

LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” len

Grammarly Pushes Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing Guidance

Grammarly is expanding beyond its grammar-checking roots. The company has announced the launch of several specialized AI "agents" and a new writing tool called Grammarly Docs, designed to help students and professionals with everything from drafting essays to polishing workplace emails. It's another example of generative AI expanding beyond general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini into more specialized domains. Other examples of gen AI in educational circles include Google's NotebookLM

Qwen-Image Edit gives Photoshop a run for its money with AI-powered text-to-image edits that work in seconds

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Adobe Photoshop is among the most recognizable pieces of software ever created, used by more than 90% of the world’s creative professionals, according to Photutorial. So the fact that a new open source AI model — Qwen-Image Edit, released yesterday by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Qwen Team of AI researchers — is now able to accomplis

Alation says new query feature offers 30% accuracy boost, helping enterprises turn data catalogs into problem solvers

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The enterprise data catalog market has undergone dramatic shifts in the modern gen AI era. Traditional data catalogs served as static repositories where users searched for datasets and documentation. The market expanded to include data governance capabilities with many vendors branding the technology as data intelligence platforms. Early

Unsealed Apple Pay ruling explains Fintiv’s Texas retreat and weakens new Georgia case

A newly unsealed opinion shows why Apple had little patience for Fintiv’s long-running claims in Texas. As it turns out, after seven years of litigation, Fintiv still could not point to any evidence that Apple Pay or Apple Wallet ever used the kind of “widget” described in its patent. That finding explains the company’s abrupt retreat in Texas and bodes poorly for its latest attempt to profit off Apple Pay in Georgia. Why Fintiv’s Texas claims collapsed Judge Alan Albright, who oversees one of

The joy of recursion, immutable data, & pure functions: Making mazes with JS

This post is based on a talk I presented at Web Directions Summit, 2024. Let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room. Why the heck am I talking about making mazes? Normally, I try to be practical when I’m writing or speaking. I want to give people tools they can use to make their coding lives better. So, I try to discuss things like creating DOM elements and processing JSON data. Because those things are practical. I would rather not waste people’s time on things they’re not going to us

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 20, #801

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a real headache. The NYT puzzle writers are really pulling some obscure connections out of the air, and I did not do well today at all. Need some help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot

Scientists Testing New LASIK-Like System That Doesn't Use a Laser on Eyeball

Image by Valeria Blanc / Getty Images Treatments Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK, a popular surgical procedure that uses high-power lasers to reshape the cornea to correct vision problems. During a meeting of the American Chemical Society, a team of scientists led by Occidental College chemistry professor Michael Hill showed off a new approach, called "electromechanical reshaping" (EMR), that uses small jolts of electr

Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait?

Recently, I have had some free time and started learning some low-level computer fundamentals, trying to practice and better understand the concepts in greater detail. Along the way, I learned about a modern compiler infrastructure named LLVM, which is a target-independent optimizer and code generator that has been used as a part of many compilers for different programming languages like Rust, Zig, or Haskell. While diving into LLVM’s aggressive optimization features, I have a humbling realizati

Robinhood Tries to Rebrand Sports Betting as Investing

Robinhood has gotten a reputation as a platform where people make wildly speculative investments without sufficient guardrails. So it’s only right that it’s getting into the sports betting business. The company announced on Tuesday that it is launching “prediction markets” for college and professional football as part of a partnership with Kalshi. According to the company, it’ll start listing “contracts” for NFL and NCAA games in the coming days, with plans to make each matchup open for two wee

Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French streamer

Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French streamer 23 minutes ago Share Save Tom McArthur BBC News Share Save Getty Images An investigation has been launched into the death of a French streamer known for extreme challenges. Raphaël Graven, also known as Jeanpormanove, was found dead at a residence in Contes, a village north of Nice, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old had been subject to bouts of violence and sleep deprivation during streams, and died in his sleep during a live broadcast,

Palantir stock slumps 9%, falling for a fifth straight day from record

CEO of Palantir Technologies Alex Karp attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 15, 2025. Palantir 's stock slumped more than 9% on Tuesday, falling for a fifth straight day to continue its pullback from all-time highs. The artificial intelligence software provider's stock has slid more than 15% over the last five trading sessions, after a stellar earnings report earlier this month propelled shares to

Watch Britt Lower’s self-recorded audition tape for ‘Severance’

If you listen to the Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott, you probably remember the episode where Britt Lower, who plays Helly R., said she recorded her audition tape on her bathroom floor. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has published the tape, and it is impressive how spot-on she was from the get-go. Here’s Lower’s own account of how her audition tape came to be: “And you know, this was prior to COVID, so you were still doing in-person auditions at that time. And initially, you guys